Paul W. Garver, Randal T. Abler, E. Coyle, John Narayan
{"title":"Comparisons of high performance software radios with size, weight, area and power constraints","authors":"Paul W. Garver, Randal T. Abler, E. Coyle, John Narayan","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643238","url":null,"abstract":"Software-Defined Radios (SDR), which digitize RF spectrum and perform traditional receiver tasks in software, are becoming increasingly viable as an enabling technology for mobile networks and sensor networks. The concurrent rise in commercially available small form-factor, low-power, x86-based processors creates the possibility of incorporating General Purpose Processor (GPP) software radios into existing sensor networks. The eStadium VIP project is considering the addition of such nodes to sense digitized RF spectrum data in Bobby Dodd football stadium. The flexibility inherent in GPP software radio provides rapid algorithm testing; however, the hardware is often large, heavy, and power intensive. Due to the limited resources and practical considerations in the stadium, the trade-offs between size, weight, area, and power (SWAP) requirements and SDR capabilities must be studied prior to deployment. A performance analysis across four PC form factors, including one suitable for embedded use, running realistic SDR applications is presented. Case studies include FM radio with the BPSK modulated Radio Broadcast Data Service (RBDS), FM analog video, and distributed processing of digital video with QPSK modulation. Such studies provide valuable insight into SDR testbeds.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121365085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demo: a testbed to evaluate frequency-hopping anti-jamming techniques in ieee 802.11","authors":"F. Gringoli, N. Facchi, Daniel S. Berger","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643244","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless communication is inherently prone to disruption by interference. Frequency Hopping (FH) can counter interference and promises to enable communication again even in the presence of intentional interference by jammers. Evaluations of this anti-jamming technique and of corresponding strategies are, however, often limited to theoretical or simulation studies. This demo presents an IEEE 802.11 testbed for a practical FH-jammer game: a STA-AP pair synchronously changes channel to evade a (variable) number of reactive jammers, which try block their communications.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123978109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation and evaluation of a flexible, load-adaptive link layer protocol","authors":"André Puschmann, A. Mitschele-Thiel","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643241","url":null,"abstract":"We design, implement and evaluate a load-adaptive MAC protocol based on a flexible, component-based link layer architecture. We first present the overall architecture that facilitates a generic data transfer protocol used by ordinary user applications and management functions of the link layer, called link layer apps. Based on this architecture, we propose a load-adaptive MAC protocol for fixed spectrum networks that is designed as a link layer app on top of the data transfer protocol. The protocol reuses existing MAC blocks and allows switching between those based on run-time analysis of the wireless communication system performance. Finally, we evaluate a SDR implementation of the entire system through various experiments.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127680028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rohit Gupta, Bjoern Bachmann, Russell D. Ford, S. Rangan, Arianna Morelli, V. Mancuso, Nikhil Kundargi, A. Ekbal
{"title":"Demo: LabVIEW based framework for prototyping dense LTE networks","authors":"Rohit Gupta, Bjoern Bachmann, Russell D. Ford, S. Rangan, Arianna Morelli, V. Mancuso, Nikhil Kundargi, A. Ekbal","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643247","url":null,"abstract":"In the demo, we illustrate the integration aspects of LTE testbed using LabVIEW SISO OFDM Physical layer and open source NS-3 LTE LENA stack. We leverage the NS-3 LENA module, which allows researchers to conduct simulations by emulating large network of base-stations, mobile devices and core network. However, the validity of results produced from such simulations is limited due to the physical layer model and may not accurately reflect the true behavior of densely-deployed LTE networks. Hence, we implemented selected LTE physical channels in LabVIEW to facilitate more realistic emulation of the LTE testbed and integrate it with MAC/higher layers of LENA protocol stack. The main goal of the testbed is to be able to show the artifacts caused in interference limited environment and demonstrate the performance of Enhanced Inter-cell Interference Coordination (eICIC) algorithms proposed by researchers in 3GPP. This demo shows preliminary results and we plan to use this testbed to showcase different aspects of Software Defined Networking (SDN) framework which is used to fine-tune different aspects of dense deployments within EU FP7 CROWD research project.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124410718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Croce, N. Galioto, D. Garlisi, Giuseppe Costantino Giaconia, Fabrizio Giuliano, I. Tinnirello
{"title":"Demo: unconventional WiFi-ZigBee communications without gateways","authors":"D. Croce, N. Galioto, D. Garlisi, Giuseppe Costantino Giaconia, Fabrizio Giuliano, I. Tinnirello","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643245","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the overcrowding of ISM bands is becoming an evident limitation for the performance and widespread usage of 802.11 and 802.15.4 technologies. In this demo, we prove that it is possible to opportunistically exploit the inter-technology interference between 802.11 and 802.15.4 to build an unconventional low-rate communication channel and signalling protocol, devised to improve the performance of each contending technology. Differently from previous solutions, inter-technology communications do not require the deployment of a gateway with two network interfaces, but can be activated (when needed) directly between two heterogeneous nodes, e.g. a WiFi node and a ZigBee node. This capability can be very useful for coordinating channel access between WiFi and ZigBee networks, reading measurements from ZigBee sensors, or configuring ZigBee actuators (e.g. an on/off power switch) directly by using common smartphones or laptops which are only equipped with WiFi interfaces.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124425013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stratos Keranidis, Virgilios Passas, Kostas Chounos, Wei Liu, T. Korakis, I. Koutsopoulos, I. Moerman, L. Tassiulas
{"title":"Online assessment of sensing performance in experimental spectrum sensing platforms","authors":"Stratos Keranidis, Virgilios Passas, Kostas Chounos, Wei Liu, T. Korakis, I. Koutsopoulos, I. Moerman, L. Tassiulas","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643232","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic Spectrum Access aims at exploiting underutilized frequency bands towards improving wireless network performance. In this context, spectrum sensing is employed, in order to monitor spectrum occupancy and drive appropriate adaptation decisions. Researchers in the field primarily evaluate proposed sensing approaches in terms of detection accuracy and efficiency of free spectrum utilization. In this work, we focus on online assessment of spectrum occupancy with respect to sensing delay and energy efficiency. Evaluation of spectrum sensing methods with respect to these two metrics is rather lagging in recent experimental developments. The first is related to the latency induced by the spectrum sensing process and its impact on sensing efficiency, which is tightly connected to the resulting performance of the cognitive solution. On the other hand, energy consumption is considered as a crucial issue in all types of wireless communications. Therefore, it is important to extend existing testbed experimentation tools and develop new ones, in order to equip cognitive testbeds with such advanced monitoring capabilities. To this aim, we integrated the proposed monitoring procedure with the experimentation tools of the CREW testbed federation. In order to demonstrate the applicability of our framework, we experimentally validate the performance of four different sensing platforms, as well as a real-time spectrum sensing engine that implements parallel processing on software defined radios, in terms of the aforementioned metrics.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132039607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adriano Galati, Theodoros Bourchas, S. Siby, S. Mangold
{"title":"System architecture for delay tolerant media distribution for rural south africa","authors":"Adriano Galati, Theodoros Bourchas, S. Siby, S. Mangold","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643239","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless communication offers access to information even to users living in areas where little to no access to affordable communication channels is available. Delay Tolerant Networks~(DTNs) enable content distribution in such areas, using mobility of devices and avoiding the need for traditional network infrastructure. In DTNs, data is passed from mobile device to mobile device, whenever possible, in an intelligent way. DTNs have the potential to reach out to under-served regions where cellular Internet access (3G, LTE, and beyond) might be expensive or unavailable. We are interested in DTNs for distributing media from cities to under-served rural areas. The content is distributed to the target destinations, using either public transportation or commuting vehicles such as taxis, equipped with wireless DTN-enabled devices. At each target destination, a micro-entrepreneur business is established with the help of our network: Micro-entrepreneurs use DTN-enabled projectors (also referred to as cinemas-in-a-backpack) to deliver entertainment content at low cost, and exploit the opportunity to create a micro-business around the show events. In this paper, we introduce the DTN system setup, present performance results of laboratory tests and test with a local commuter train of periodic and predictable mobility. Further, we present the target scenario and specific technical challenges. We aim to explore opportunities for a rural, under-served region in the north of Pretoria, South Africa.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129181284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential pitfalls of the message in message mechanism in modern 802.11 networks","authors":"Wei Wang, W. Leong, B. Leong","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643231","url":null,"abstract":"We study the performance impact of the Message in Message (MIM) mechanism in modern 802.11 networks. The MIM mechanism refers to the capability of receiver to abandon an ongoing reception of an 802.11 MAC frame and shift to decode another frame with a higher signal strength. MIM is a common feature in modern 802.11 adapters and it has been shown to improve spatial concurrency. However, our measurement study in a campus WLAN shows that under certain conditions, MIM could cause a throughput degradation of more than 30% when enabled, instead of improving it as expected. With comprehensive experiments using commercial 802.11n adapters, we characterize the impact of MIM for a range of parameters and for different scenarios. We show that a simple adaptive MIM scheme can potentially achieve throughput that is close to the optimal. Our method is practical because it can be easily implemented in existing commodity 802.11 adapters.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133673869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the impact of cross technology interference on IEEE 802.15.4","authors":"Anwar Hithnawi, Hossein Shafagh, S. Duquennoy","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643235","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last few decades, we witnessed notable progress in wireless communication. This has led to rapid emergence of heterogeneous wireless technologies that share the RF spectrum in an un-coordinated way. Such a coexistence introduces high uncertainty and complexity to the medium, affecting reliability and availability of wireless net works. This problem aggravates for technologies operating in the lightly regulated, yet crowded ISM bands. To address coexistence of different technologies in the scarce RF spectrum, provide proper interference-aware protocols, and mitigation schemes, we need to develop a good understanding of the interaction patterns of these technologies. In this paper, we provide a thorough study of the implications of Cross Technology Interference (CTI) on the particularly vulnerable low-power IEEE 802.15.4 wireless networks. We identify the underlying vulnerabilities that hamper 802.15.4 to withstand CTI. We show that the uncertainty that CTI induces on the wireless channel is not completely stochastic; CTI exhibits distinct patterns that can be exploited by interference-aware protocols.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126977889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demo: co-primary spectrum sharing with inter-operator D2D trial","authors":"Markku Jokinen, Marko Mäkeläinen, T. Hänninen","doi":"10.1145/2643230.2643243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2643230.2643243","url":null,"abstract":"A co-primary spectrum sharing trial is presented in this paper. It is presenting a flexible way to share resources between multiple operators in order to increase spectral efficiency. In this trial the differences in traffic patterns of themobile network operators are exploited to ease up the peak traffic demands of particular operator. This shared recourse is also usable for inter-operator D2D communication, when two users of different operators want to communicate and operators need to negotiate resource allocation for this communication link. We will also introduce Wireless Open Access Research Platform as our choice for the implementation of this trial.","PeriodicalId":239177,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121608984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}